World Tourism Statistics 1995-2025

World tourist spending for 2019 was 1.863 trillion US dollars, a 1.81% increase from 2018.
  • World tourist spending for 2018 was 1.830 trillion US dollars, a 8.85% increase from 2017.
  • World tourist spending for 2017 was 1.681 trillion US dollars, a 9.09% increase from 2016.
  • World tourist spending for 2016 was 1.541 trillion US dollars, a 1.61% increase from 2015.
International tourism receipts are expenditures by international inbound visitors, including payments to national carriers for international transport. These receipts include any other prepayment made for goods or services received in the destination country. They also may include receipts from same-day visitors, except when these are important enough to justify separate classification. For some countries they do not include receipts for passenger transport items. Data are in current U.S. dollars.